C E L E S T E  M O R T O N

Celestejbmorton@gmail.com

https://www.instagram.com/celeste_jb_morton/

Born Tappan, NY, 1990


RESIDENCIES/AWARDS

2024

Kimmel Nelson Harding artist residency, Nebraska City NE

Cow House artist residency, Wexford, Ireland 

2022

Creatives Rebuild NY Grant, New York, NY

2020

Azule Artist Residency, Hot Springs, NC

2019

The Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship, Nominee

2018

Listen and Respond: Delivering Ourselves from the Tonal, Berlin Germany

Collaboration with Savvy Contemporary 


INTERVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS

I Know Strange People

Interview with Jeffrey Morabito 

2021

Shoutout Miami 

Interview

2018

Cadence

Writing by Emily Newman, catalog


CURATION

2023

Animal People, Tappeto Volante Projects, Brooklyn NY


SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024

Nails Salon, Brooklyn NY

Dove Hall, Wolfgang Gallery, Atlanta GA

Tiny Dancer Gallery, Gowanus, Brooklyn NY

2023

As Young As You Feel, NIACC Gallery, Mason City IA

2020

The George Gallery, Charleston SC

2015

Without Memory, Piermont Library, Piermont NY


GROUP  EXHIBITIONS

2024

Em’s Cafe, Tusk, Chicago IL

Plantasia, Millennium Film, Brooklyn NY

Heartbreaker, Good Naked hosted by Java Contemporary, Brooklyn NY

Necessity A Mother, Icebox, Brooklyn NY 

Other Life Forms, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville NY

2023 

South Brooklyn Salon, Thomas VanDyke Gallery, Brooklyn NY

Ninth Life, Calico, Brooklyn NY

Pareidolia: Ideas Paradise, Tappeto Volante Projects, Brooklyn NY 

Animal People, Tappeto Volante Projects, Brooklyn NY

Don't Get Cute With Me, Latent Space, Chicago IL 

2022 

Labspace, Holiday Show, Hillsdale NY

Finding a Memory, I Like Your Work Podcast Fall Exhibition, Boston MA

The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York NY

Peter Williams Memorial Show, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington DE

Immortal:Interventions in Time, Automat, Philadelphia PA 

Horse Show, Galleri Urbane, Dallas TX

2021

Gowanus Open Studio, Gowanus, Brooklyn

Unconquerable Women, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin TX

Curated by Katarina Janeckova

2020

2020 Bowery Gallery International Competition, New York NY

Juried by Janice Nowinski 

Look Back in Wonder, Arts Mid-Hudson NY

The Nature of Us, Tradesman Brewing Company, Charleston SC 

2019

Refuge, Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn NY

Bad Idea, Tua Lingua, Charleston SC                      

2018

Cadence, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington DE

2017           

Compulsion, Chris White Gallery, Wilmington DE

The Nude, Chris Davison Gallery, Newburgh NY

2016

Common Ground, Recitation Hall Gallery, Newark DE

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Post-baccalaureate show, Chicago IL

Exqueeze me, Free Range Gallery, Chicago IL

2015 

Bare Skin, Outer Room Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2012

Collage Logic, Hampden Gallery, Amherst MA

2009

Art and Democracy IV, Gallery H, New York NY


EDUCATION

The University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2016- 2018

Masters of Fine Arts: Painting 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2015-2016

Post Baccalaureate: Painting

The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 2008-2012  

Bachelors of Arts: Film, Minor: Studio Art























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